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    1. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs Feb 13
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      1/ I predict Islamic-inspired design will be one of the most influential design trends of the 2020s I spent yesterday at the Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur and encountered many incredible pieces that demonstrate whypic.twitter.com/rk4DmgaaIj

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    2. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs Feb 13
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      2/ Scandinavian-style utilitarian minimalism has been so dominant for so long it’s inevitable we’ll now go in the opposite direction Islamic design is baroque, daring, intricate, while also remaining highly functionalpic.twitter.com/osXc3osE29

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    3. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs Feb 13
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      3/ There is a willingness to question forms so common in the West that we don’t think to question them. These objects come from such a different environment and culture that their evolution has taken a different pathpic.twitter.com/G43wB1qLjB

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    4. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs Feb 13
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      4/ There is a love of detail work as a kind of devotion, dedicating obscene amounts of human time and attention to the cause of beauty in a way you rarely see in the modern Westpic.twitter.com/i8kdWnGnKO

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    5. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs Feb 13
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      5/ There is a concern for the quality of things, for color and light that can only happen when it diffuses through many overlapping layerspic.twitter.com/CztysEthPx

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    6. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs Feb 13
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      6/ The architecture is especially amazing of course. Every element has a meaning, and references the others like a latticework holding the worshipper (which everyone is assumed to be)pic.twitter.com/0Lr07eEDIo

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    7. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs Feb 13
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      7/ And contrary to popular belief, there are many different Islamic architecture styles, stretching from Siberia to Cape Town, Dakar to Mindanaopic.twitter.com/RhiNhCgATw

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 13
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      I’ll take that long bet. I think you’re wrong here. That kind of Islamic art comes from peak imperial periods and a particular pattern of unaccountable high elitism. It’s a mark of economic surplus and inequality in a low-tech age.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 13
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      The west will go far more rustic and rough hewn. Elites have better Veblen goods with which to signal wealth than high labor intricate art. Like private jets.

      11:05 PM - 13 Feb 2020
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        1. follow such a one‏ @suchaone Feb 13
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          follow such a one Retweeted follow such a one

          tfw no filigree robot butlerhttps://twitter.com/suchaone/status/912398434145067008?s=20 …

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          filigree as an aesthetic for post-scarcity electronics, imagine robots and laptops made of this stuff pic.twitter.com/7f6GJTT2JA
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        1. Danger & Cuddlekins‏ @Chiliandgarlic Feb 13
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          *MBS rolls up with a flying carpet*

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